Last week I neglected to call attention to the fiftieth anniversary of the supposed night time attack by North Vietnamese PT boats on US Navy destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy. Here are my recollections of that night.
The attack apparently never happened. Even so, the Johnson administration used it to justify the Tonkin Gulf Resolution.
Thursday, August 14, 2014
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